On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, Steve Izma wrote:
> Anyway, my strategies for typesetting for a printed document:
I'm always impressed by people who know how to typeset AND how to
write! Thank you for the clear and concise rules.
Steve Izma <si...@golden.net> wrote:
> - don't set the URL at all in the body of the text but use a
> footnote or endnote marker and set the URL in the footnote or
> endnote, since these are usually set in a smaller point size
> and gives you more flexibility for fitting on lines; if a text
> contains a lot of URLS, then set the notes as endnotes in a
> longer line length, if possible;
This would be an ideal solution, if it is possible with groff. When I
must have a URL visible in the text, I'd love for it to be in small
text as a footnote. How hard is it to add footnotes to a package like
mdoc in groff?
Thank you, Deri, for providing your pdfman program! I am hoping to
find a solution using a groff macro instead of a Perl preprocessing
step, but it does do what I want.
For those who didn't try pdfman yet, it turns troff like this:
The GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation hosts the
.UR https://\:www.gnu.org/\:software/\:groff/
Groff home page
.UE .
into something like this:
.ds PDFHREF.COLOUR 0.0 0.0 0.3
.defcolor pdf:href.colour rgb \*[PDFHREF.COLOUR]
.ds PDFHREF.TEXT.COLOUR pdf:href.colour
The GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation hosts the
.pdfhref W -D "https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/"; -A "." -- Groff home
page
This makes the phrase "Groff home page" in the PDF a blue clickable
link to the proper URL. The URL itself is not shown in the PDF text.
--b9
Deri <d...@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> if ($l=~m/^\.UR (\S+)/)
> {
> my $desc='';
> my $dest=$1;
> $dest=~s/\\\://g;
> my $affix='';
> $foundur=1;
>
> for (my $i=$j+1;$i<$j+4;$i++)
> {
> if ($lines[$i]=~m/^\.(?:ME|UE) ?(.*)/)
> {
> $affix=" -A \"$1\"" if $1;
> $lines[$i]=undef;
> last;
> }
> else
> {
> $desc.=' ' if $desc;
> $desc.=$lines[$i];
> $lines[$i]=undef;
> }
> }
>
> $l=qq(.pdfhref W -D "$dest"${affix} -- $desc);
> Put($l);
> next;
> }
P.S. Deri, your code is using a regex to find the URL and it breaks on
this input:
The main home page for the x86 port of Madness is
.UR http://\:www.frijid.net/\:madness/\:madness.html
http://www.frijid.net/madness/madness.html
.UE .
